You are making history as you read this, and your children are making history by doing whatever they do today because what we do today becomes history tomorrow. Women's History Month is a great opportunity to cultivate your children's interest in history and help them recognize history in the making all around them.

All parents wait. For first steps, for the
school bus, for driving test results… we wait. We wait eagerly for our
children to come into the world, and although it is a joyous
anticipation, many prospective adoptive parents find this particular
wait almost unbearable.

Children are naturally musical. It's almost
as if they have a sixth sense for music. Even babies as young as six
months enjoy repetitive pitch and rhythm like clapping, slapping,
humming, and hooting. And listening, singing, playing instruments, and
dancing are great ways to have fun and be creative as a family. However,
the benefits of music extend far beyond the sheer joy of making sounds.
Researchers consistently link the study of music with cognitive
development, school achievement, positive socialization, and personal
success. The discipline of music requires children to develop attention
to detail, cognitive organization, communication, pattern recognition,
and cooperation–skills that foster success in all areas of their
lives.

Foster parenting comes naturally for Karin and Randy Dula of Rochester. Karin's parents adopted her younger brother after a ten-month foster placement in their home, and Randy was adopted from foster care when he was seven years old.

​New pharmaceutical sales representative usually look forward to training with a mix of anticipation and anxiety. It's exciting to begin a new journey. It's fun to meet new people. And it probably means that you're done with home study manuals and online tests. At the same time, it's natural to worry about being away from your family or not performing well at training.

How many gift cards did you receive last year? According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), probably at least one. In their fourth annual Gift Card Survey, the NRF found that 95% of adult survey respondents either received or purchased a gift card in 2006 - a 24% increase over 2005 survey results.

How many prescriptions did you lose today? If you didn't call on the nurse practitioners and physician assistants in your territory, you may have lost as many as 21. And your smartest competitors know exactly where to find them.

Physicians and other healthcare providers have less time and more
prescribing options than ever before. Studies show that as few as eight
out of every 100 sales calls end with the physician meeting the rep and
remembering what was said. How can you be one of those eight memorable
reps?

Primary care "is at grave risk of collapse," proclaims a report from the
American College of Physicians, as printed in the July 7th issue of
Medical Economics.1 A confluence of changing demographics
within the medical profession and increasing consumer demand for health
care services has brought our nation's primary care system to a tipping
point.